Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Gregorio Prestopino
Death of Snappy Collins
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Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Gregorio Prestopino
1907 - 1984
Death of Snappy Collins
signed Prestopino (lower left); signed Prestopino and titled (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
25 ⅞ by 22 in.
65.7 by 55.9 cm.
Executed in 1945.
T.B. Walker Foundation and Gilbert M. Walker Fund, Minneapolis
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1948 by the present owner
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1946, no. 126, n.p., illustrated
New York, National Academy of Design, 121st Annual Exhibition, 1947
Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, American Painting of Today, 1947
“Sights and Sounds: About Artists by Artists,” New Masses, 1 January 1946, p. 27
“Artists Sweep Pennsylvania Academy Off Its Traditional Feet,” MKR’s Art Outlook, no. 8, March 1946, p. 3, illustrated
The Art Digest, vol. 21, no. 7, 1 January 1947, p. 19
“National Academy, Holding 121st Annual, Opens Door to Outsiders,” The Art Digest, vol. 21, no. 8, 15 January 1947, p. 30
Lawrence Dame, “Worcester Biennial,” The Art Digest, vol. 21, no. 14, 15 April 1947, p. 20
Alexander Hopkins McDannald, The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1946, New York and Chicago, 1947, p. 531
Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America, New York, 1949, p. 476
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